Short story in which a dying man is hypnotised ("mesmerized") in order to keep death away.
A mere ten pages long, it describes the effect of mesmerizing him and how his hypnosis keeps the rotting of his body and the departure of his spirit at bay.
I noticed I had to focus on the words to truly feel the atmosphere. That said, sitting outside on a warm sunny balcony with Turkish background music is perhaps not the right environment for reading Poe...
